Insider: 49ers WR Brandon Aiyuk's New Deal Will be Near $29 Mil Per Year

It will be interesting to see if Aiyuk will accept less than $30 million per season.

Grant Cohn | Jun 14, 2024

January 20, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) reacts during the fourth quarter against the Green Bay Packers in a 2024 NFC divisional round game at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports / Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

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The 49ers seem to be getting closer to extending Brandon Aiyuk's contract.

Training camp will start at the end of July and players will begin practicing at the beginning of August. Ideally, the 49ers would have Aiyuk signed and on the field on the first day of padded practices. And that's exactly what Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer expects to happen.

"I think the San Francisco 49ers will make a very real effort to sign receiver Brandon Aiyuk before the start of training camp," Breer writes. "Mike Silver of the San Francisco Chronicle has the San Francisco 49ers’ offer at a new-money average of $26 million per year. My sense is that’s getting in the neighborhood of where they’ll have to lock up Brandon Aiyuk, whom they really do value and love.

"I think the final number, if I had to guess, will wind up being $29 million per year, which would put Aiyuk past the Miami Dolphins’ Jaylen Waddle and Detroit Lions’ Amon-Ra St. Brown, and still behind the Minnesota Vikings’ Justin Jefferson by quite a bit (which would be understandable).

"The interesting thing from there would be how the Niners react when calls start coming in on Deebo Samuel."

It also will be interesting to see if Aiyuk will accept less than $30 million per season. It seems as though his pride won't allow him to. It also seems as though the 49ers don't want to pay Aiyuk $30 million per season just based on principle. So one side will have to cave, and Breer thinks it will be Aiyuk.

I'm not so sure about that.

Published Jun 14, 2024

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.